Acroricnus seductor
| Acroricnus seductor | |
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| Acroricnus seductor. Museum specimen | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Hymenoptera |
| Suborder: | Apocrita |
| Superfamily: | Ichneumonoidea |
| Family: | Ichneumonidae |
| Subfamily: | Gelinae |
| Genus: | Acroricnus |
| Species: | A. seductor |
| Binomial name | |
| Acroricnus seductor (Scopoli, 1786) | |
| Synonyms | |
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Acroricnus seductor is a species of wasps belonging to the family Ichneumonidae. [1]
Subspecies
Species within this genus include: [2]
- Acroricnus seductor elegans (Mocsáry, 1883)
- Acroricnus seductor syriacus (Mocsáry, 1883)
Biology
These ichneumonid wasps parasite larvae of Sceliphron spirifex, Sceliphron destillatorium and Sceliphron caementarium. [3] Females of this species deposit eggs inserting the ovipositor through the mud wall of their host nest. [4]
Distribution
This species is present in Europe, in the Near East, in North Africa and in the Oriental ecozone. [5]
References
- ↑ Biolib
- ↑ Catalogue of life
- ↑ Maurizio Mei, Giorgio Pezzi, Remo De Togni, Umberto Devincenzo The oriental mud-dauber wasp Chalybion bengalense (Dahlbom) introduced in Italy (Hymenoptera, Sphecidae)
- ↑ Carlo Polidori · Matteo Federici · Pablo Mendiola · Jesús Selfa · Francesco Andrietti - Host detection and rate of parasitism by Acroricnus seductor (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonidae), a natural enemy of mud-dauber wasps (Hymenoptera: Sphecidae)
- ↑ Fauna europaea
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